LRD guides and handbook May 2013

Law at Work 2013

Chapter 9

Union protests over fresh proposals to restrict right to strike

The TUC has reacted angrily to proposals in the Crime and Courts Bill 2013 which, if implemented, will prevent 3,000 civil servants working for the National Crime Agency from taking strike action. TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady expressed the fear that it is “the beginning of an attack on the rights of those working in the public sector to take industrial action”.